Blarg-o-matic
I ate too much of this GIGANTOR orange.
It was just so good.
As I was eating too much GIGANTOR orange, I was wondering about the orange and how it got to me. Does this orange bemoan its fate? Does it wish it had made more of an effort in college, perhaps signing up for the 2 year program in Italy instead of one semester? Would I give a rat's ass even if it did? Somehow I think if I can eat an adorable rabbit and wear its furred skin as wonderfully soft mittens then I could eat chomp down one regretful orange.
Speaking of oranges.
Ok you weren't, but I was. Am... At Christmas time one year, my crafty Mother stuck a bunch of cloves into a few oranges, gave them as gifts and gave yours truly an history lesson. She explained how valuable both cloves and oranges used to be... and also how she'd never do that again because who knew dried whole cloves are tipped with x-acto blades?
Point, DPO, Point.
Right, I was wondering where the nearest orangery and uh... clovery? would be after the zombies come and start the end of humanity. I'm going to need to keep the scurfy in check and I also think items such as these will be the new currency. Along with tins of heavy syrup peaches...
mmmm peaches
Today's recipe: Kasha
What the hell is kasha you say?
It's a delectable mix of bulgar wheat (aka kasha), squishy bowtie noodles and onion. Some peeps put mushrooms in it which I like but Mister thinks that mushrooms = poison.
And he may have a point...
"Why did you push Mister down the stairs, DPO?"
"Because he wouldn't eat his mushrooms."
Ingredients
1 large onion
1 cup bulgar wheat (kasha)
2 cups low salt chicken broth
1/2 lb of farfalle cooked
1 egg
1 Tbspn butter
1 tsp kosher salt (optional)
Kashinator, Noodlenator* and Onions
1. Mix 1 cup kasha with 1 egg and dry fry in a pan on LOW heat until kasha is dry and smells nutty
2. Add 2 cups broth, cover and remove from heat
3. set aside
4. cook farfalle until done
5. drain, rinse and set aside
6. Chop onion into bite sized pieces and saute in butter until caramelized
7. set onion aside
Assemble and Bake
1. Pre-heat oven to 350F
2. In a large bowl, stir together onions, kasha and noodles and 1 tsp salt (optional)
3. dump into a greased 9x13 baking dish
4. bake at 350F for about 30 mins (this makes some of the noodles delightfully** crunchy)
*noodlenator? that's horrible
**Yes. It's a friggin' delight.
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It's funny, but I had a conversation about the historic worth of oranges with the husband just the other day. I very clearly remember being amazed at 10 years old when Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie! Yay!) explained just how wonderful and exotic it was to get an orange (yep, just one!) for Christmas. Although, how an orange made it to-what-Kansas? Minnesota? South Dakota?-in the late 1800s I'll never know.
ReplyDeleteThe Orange must've gone wagon-training. Then all of it's friends died of cholera. Damn Oregon Trail.
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